The Killer Is Loose
He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 13, 2017
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: ClassicFlix
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming & Wendell Corey | |
| Performer: | Michael Pate, Alan Hale Jr., John Larch, Virginia Christine & Paul Bryar | |
| Directed by | Budd Boetticher | |
| Edited by | George A. Gittens | |
| Screenplay by | Harold Medford | |
| Composition by | Lionel Newman | |
| Story by | John Hawkins & Ward Hawkins | |
| Produced by | Robert L. Jacks | |
| Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
60%
36%
Handed a narrative stuffed with cat-and-mouse violence, the filmmaker plays down dark hysteria in favor of grayish curtness, and the film is no less tense for that.
Slant Magazine
Rating: C --
A typical 1950s noir.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B+ --
Plays out like some sort of slow-motion fever dream.
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Lessons of Darkness
A rather creaky attempt at a film noir with very little of the psychological violence and use of landscape that would define [Boetticher's] later films.
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Combustible Celluloid
Strange, moody film noir, filled with observations on daily life, technology and gender in the 1950's.
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Classic Film and Television
Description by OLDIES.com:
Newly remastered and restored and now in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Detective Sam Wagner’s job is never easy. Even an average day proves stressful for him and his family. But this is no ordinary day for Wagner (Joseph Cotten) or his wife Lila (Rhonda Fleming).
After pegging a recent bank robbery as an inside job orchestrated by mild-mannered clerk Leon Poole (played by a bespectacled Wendell Corey), Wagner heads to the suspect’s apartment to make the arrest expecting him to be alone. Instead, Poole’s beloved wife is with him and caught in the crossfire of a shootout leaving her dead.
Sent to prison, and believing Wagner is responsible for his wife’s death, Poole is desperate for revenge. Escape and murder soon follow with the haunting Poole bent on taking away the woman Wagner loves. Will the detective and his men save her in time?
Helmed by the gritty Budd Boetticher, The Killer is Loose takes the director’s unique visual style away from the plains and into the world of suburbia for this taut and suspenseful thriller. Close your windows, lock your doors -- The Killer is Loose!
Detective Sam Wagner’s job is never easy. Even an average day proves stressful for him and his family. But this is no ordinary day for Wagner (Joseph Cotten) or his wife Lila (Rhonda Fleming).
After pegging a recent bank robbery as an inside job orchestrated by mild-mannered clerk Leon Poole (played by a bespectacled Wendell Corey), Wagner heads to the suspect’s apartment to make the arrest expecting him to be alone. Instead, Poole’s beloved wife is with him and caught in the crossfire of a shootout leaving her dead.
Sent to prison, and believing Wagner is responsible for his wife’s death, Poole is desperate for revenge. Escape and murder soon follow with the haunting Poole bent on taking away the woman Wagner loves. Will the detective and his men save her in time?
Helmed by the gritty Budd Boetticher, The Killer is Loose takes the director’s unique visual style away from the plains and into the world of suburbia for this taut and suspenseful thriller. Close your windows, lock your doors -- The Killer is Loose!
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